Department of State

Couple of things, first I’ll put on my political hat. Keeping a server at the house, with physical control of the box, is a very clear sign that the Clinton’s (obviously both were using the server) are more concerned with their keeping personal secrets rather than national secrets. This should communicate very loudly what they […]

Armed rebels in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa seized U.S. embassy vehicles Wednesday after diplomats fled the country over growing unrest. Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren confirmed that the vehicles were taken by Houthi rebels after embassy personnel and U.S. Marines guarding the embassy evacuated. Warren said the Marines turned over their small arms to government […]

The Obama administration is refusing to discuss reports that emerged early Thursday claiming that the White House is considering imposing sanctions on Israel for continuing construction on Jewish homes in Jerusalem. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf dodged several questions on Thursday when confronted with reports that the administration had held secret internal meetings to discuss […]

The State Department’s decision to keep the U.S. mission in Benghazi open despite inadequate security and increasingly dangerous threat assessments before it was attacked in September was a “grievous mistake,” a Senate report said on Monday.The Senate Homeland Security Committee’s report about the September 11 attacks on the U.S. mission and a nearby anne…

U.S. Marines defending the American embassy in Egypt were not permitted by the State Department to carry live ammunition, limiting their ability to respond to attacks like those this week on the U.S. consulate in Cairo.Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson “did not permit U.S. Marine guards to carry live ammunition,” according to multiple reports on U.S. Mar…

http://www.americani…r-stevens.jpg Ambassador Stevens being dragged through the streets before being killed by terrorists. View this and feel the rage any red blooded American must feel! President Obama on Wednesday condemned the "outrageous and shocking" attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that left the U.S. amb…

It has the ingredients of a spy thriller: an American military analyst turned whistleblower; 260,000 classified government documents; and rumours that the world's most powerful country is hunting a former hacker whom it believes is about to publish them.Pentagon and State Department officials are desperately trying to discover whether Bradley Manning,…

WASHINGTON – The State Department is recovering from large-scale computer break-ins worldwide over the past several weeks that appeared to target its headquarters and offices dealing with China and North Korea, The Associated Press has learned.Investigators believe hackers stole sensitive U.S. information and passwords and implanted backdoors in unclassif…

WASHINGTON — President Bush on Tuesday nominated Condoleezza Rice, his confidante and national security adviser, as secretary of state.She will succeed Colin Powell, who announced his resignation Monday.”During the last four years I have relied on her counsel, benefited from her great experience and appreciated her sound and steady judgment,” Bush said…

(NYT) A longtime Foreign Service officer at the State Department, who until recently was a ranking official on East Asian affairs, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with concealing a trip to Taiwan, and is suspected of improperly passing documents to Taiwanese intelligence agents, law enforcement and intelligence officials said.The diplomat, Donald W…